Postgraduate Students

Phd Students

StudentProjectSupervisorRoom
David Alexander Information retrieval / natural language Ali Knott, Andrew Trotman 257
Reece Arnott Is it practical for the everyday man to build and use his own 3D fax/photocopy machine? Geoff Wyvill, Holger Regenbrecht (InfoSci) 230
Bhaskar Ashoka Mobility Management in Next Generation Networks Zhiyi Huang, Paul Werstein 128
Halizah Basiron Dialogue-based CALL Ali Knott, Anthony Robins 257
Syed Faisal Hasan Congestion control for multimedia applications Zhiyi Huang, Paul Werstein n/a
Qihang Huang View-Oriented Parallel Programming on Multi-core Clusters Zhiyi Huang, Paul Werstein, Martin Purvis (InfoSci) 128
Sheetal Jadhav Resource allocation and Call admission control for next generation networks Zhiyi Huang, Paul Werstein 128
Xiangfei Jia Information retrieval on multi-core systems Richard O'Keefe, Andrew Trotman 108
Ignas Kukenys Face detection with Support Vector Machines Brendan McCane, Geoff Wyvill 230
Kai-Cheung Leung Evaluating the programmability and the performance of VOPP Zhiyi Huang, Paul Werstein, Richard O'Keefe 128
Michael Liddle Neural network models of vision and visual attention Ali Knott, Anthony Robins, Liz Franz (Psyc) n/a
Jennifer McDonald Natural language dialogue systems used in teaching Alistair Knott, Sarah Stein (HEDC) n/a
Jothi Nathella Vijayakumar Wireless sensor network for Train localization Zhiyi Huang, Paul Werstein, Adnan Al-Anbuky (AUT) 128
Andres Navarro Newball A model for a dog facial animation system Geoff Wyvill, Brendan McCane 230
Nicholas Sherlock CL: A concurrent programming language for next-gen platforms Zhiyi Huang, Andrew Trotman 108
Lech Szymanski Learning and Internal Representation in a Neural Network Brendan McCane, Nathan Rountree 256
Rob Visser 3D animation of animals Geoff Wyvill, Brendan McCane 230
Hayden Walles A perceptual basis for noun phrase syntax (submitted) Ali Knott, Anthony Robins n/a
Andrew Webb Language and sensory motor cognition Ali Knott, Anthony Robins 256
Hamwira Yaacob Classification Using AdaBoost Brendan McCane, Michael Albert 230
Byung-Hyun Yu Distributed shared memory protocols (submitted) Paul Werstein n/a
Nurazlin Zainal Azmi User Interface Design In Creating Augmented Reality Application For Physically Impaired People Geoff Wyvill, Janet Rountree 230


Masters Students

StudentProjectSupervisorRoom
Andrew Cahill Lifelong Learning in Reinforcement Environments Anthony Robins, Nathan Rountree 257
Chakkaradeep Chinnakonda Chandran Educator - Connect, Teach and Learn Zhiyi Huang n/a
Natascha Chrobok A change in protocol - Alternatives to brute force spam-filtering Andrew Trotman, Richard O'Keefe 108
Matthew Crane The Cold-Start Problem in Collaborative Filtering Nathan Rountree 108
Mira Guise computational neuroscience (topic TBA) Alistair Knott, Lubica Benuskova 257
Leonard Guy 3D Reconstruction from Images Brendan McCane n/a
Thomas Harper Solving differential equations using neural networks Michael Albert, Anthony Robins 257
David Keeler Ranking by examples - Using probability density estimation to determine relevance Andrew Trotman 108
Daniel Kyles Real-time Hair Physics Geoff Wyvill 230
Tim Neumegen A computational model of reach-to-grasp actions. Ali Knott 257
Mohammad Rahman Support Vector Machines Brendan McCane 256
Vaughn Wood Improving Query Term Expansion with Machine Learning Andrew Trotman 108
Hao Yang Mapping land stability Andrew Trotman, Geoff Wyvill n/a


Visiting Research Students

StudentVisiting from:ProjectSupervisor


Recently Completed

StudentYearThesisProject
Philip McLeod 2009 PhD Pitch Detection Tools for Music Analysis
Gregory Caza 2009 MSc The role of social-pragmatic cues in word learning: a neural network model (Cog Sci)
Swen Huebner 2009 MSc Beliefs, Disbeliefs and Emotions
Jochen Moellmer 2009 MSc Numeric and stochastic simulation of fluids
Robin Sheat 2009 MSc How representation influences evolution of genetic algorithms
Guillaume Aucher 2008 PhD Perspectives On Belief and Change
Zhou Feng 2008 MSc Oblique Logistic Regression Trees
Chris Gillum 2008 MSc Detecting Events in Formula One Race Car Chassis Data
Michael Phillips 2008 MSc Adapting Ray Tracing to GPU Hardware
Damon Simpson 2008 MSc Virtual Sculpting in the Watching Window
Yun Sing Koh 2007 PhD Initialising neural networks with prior knowledge
Simon McCallum 2007 PhD Catastrophic Forgetting & Pseudorehearsal
Nathan Rountree 2007 PhD Initialising neural networks with prior knowledge
Andrew Trotman 2007 PhD Information extraction and retrieval
Lorene Earnshaw 2007 MSc He Rauemi mo Te Kakano
Xiangfei Jia 2007 MSc Network paging
Corrin Lakeland 2006 PhD Lexical approaches to back off in statistical parsing
David Mason 2006 PhD Reversible deformation for computer graphics
Birger-Lee Brunswiek 2006 MSc Autonomous model airplane
Thomas Eastman 2006 MSc Serial learning with constructive neural networks
Jeff Laird 2006 MSc AI for PSP
Sang Hyeb Lee 2006 MSc Configuration of Minix for embedded systems
Christopher Monteith 2006 MSc Pattern classes that are closed downwards under a 2nd preorder
Chris Pearce 2006 MSc Feature extraction in combinatorial games
Hailing Situ 2006 MSc Load balancing in cluster computers
Andrew Wood 2006 MSc Raytracing and CSG using programmable graphics hardware
Natalie Zhao 2006 MSc GUI for biomechanical simulation tool
Alexis Angelidis 2005 PhD Shape modeling by swept space deformation
Falk Fleischer 2005 MSc Computational models of psychological disorders (Cog Sci)


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